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A hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the punishment for homosexual activity: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462)
Badran is wrong, however, about Christianity; there is no scriptural warrant, or warrant anywhere else, for executing homosexuals.
In any case, Queers for Palestine won’t get the message. They never do.
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‘They are unnatural’: Arab channel TV show guest calls
An explicit call for the murder and execution of LGBT people was made in KAN 11 corporation’s broadcast, according to a complaint filed earlier this week by The Aguda – The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel.
The complaint concerns a program on the state-owned Arabic-language channel “Makan 33”, which is the sister channel to the primary state-owned KAN 11.
Interesting! Israel has an Association for LGBTQ Equality which you will be hard-pressed to find in any predominantly Muslim country. Israel also has several Arabic TV channels including the state-owned KAN11. Will you find a Jewish TV channel anywhere else in the Middle East?
During the interview with media personality Saeed Badran, which was broadcast on Monday night, he made unprecedented statements against the gay community in Israel for several minutes.
Among other things, Badran said that “homosexuals are outside of nature” and that he supports killing them.
He also said that it wouldn’t matter if it were an Islamic (Shariah) state, Judaic (Halachic) state, or Christian state; all would execute gay people if they ruled by religion….
The NDP has announced it’s pulling out of its agreement keeping the minority Liberals in power, opening the possibility the government could fall before the next scheduled election in 2025.
“The deal is done,”NDP Leader Jagmeet Singhsaid in a social media post on Sept. 4, adding he notified Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the same day.
Singh said the Liberals are “too beholden to corporate interests” and that only the NDP can stop the Conservatives.
“Together, we can and will stop Conservative cuts, we can deliver relief and restore hope, fix health care, build homes you can afford, stop price gouging,” he said.
You have had ten years to do that and you just made it worse. Why would anyone give you another 4 years?
Trudeau reacted by saying he hopes the NDP will remain focused on how to deliver for Canadians.
“I’m focused on Canadians, I'll let the other parties focus on politics,” he said during a press conference in Newfoundland and Labrador on Sept. 4.
The major announcement came a few days after Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre made public a letter he sent to Singh, asking him to break his agreement with Trudeau.
Poilievre said Singh had promised the agreement would make life more affordable for Canadians while the opposite had occurred.
Poilievre’s office reacted to Singh’s announcement calling it a “media stunt.”
“Singh refuses to state whether the NDP will vote with non-confidence to cause a carbon tax election at the first chance,” said spokesperson Sebastian Skamski in a statement.
The NDP entered a supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals in March 2022, providing support on confidence votes in the House of Commons in exchange for prioritizing items on the NDP’s agenda.
He could have landed a cabinet post, but, apparently, didn't think of it.
Most of the items in the agreement have been fulfilled to date, including implementing dental care, tabling a pharmacare bill, and passing legislation banning replacement workers during strikes and lockouts. The deal was scheduled to last until June 2025, at the end of the spring parliamentary session.
The NDP will not be bound to support the Liberals in confidence votes when the new sitting starts on Sept. 16.
The first set confidence vote pertains to the budget, which will be tabled in early spring 2025. Otherwise the ruling party can designate certain votes in the House as confidence votes, and opposition MPs can also table non-confidence motions.
The passing of a non-confidence vote typically leads to the resignation of the government and the holding of an election.
So, it is obvious that Singh can vote against Liberal motions without collapsing parliament until the spring, at which point Singh will have 6 years in Parliament and qualify for his pension. Good move!
LGBTQ2 activists call on Trudeau to step down to prevent Poilievre leadership
LGBTQ2 activists say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pledge to remain the Liberal leader through to the next election, despite dwindling public support, is putting them at risk.
Queer advocates say a Conservative government led by Pierre Poilievre would be dangerous for the LGBTQ2 community, and some are calling on Trudeau to step aside to give the Liberals a better chance at winning the next election — which must happen by Oct. 20, 2025.
Sarah Worthman, executive director of the Newfoundland and Labrador Queer Research Initiative, says she’s seriously concerned about the potential harm of a Conservative government for LGBTQ2 Canadians.
Worthman says the Liberals would have a better chance at beating the Conservatives in an election if they replaced Trudeau, but she didn’t say with whom.
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‘Shame’: Trudeau responds to Poilievre remark that ‘female spaces should be exclusively for females’
A spokesperson for the Conservatives did not directly respond to questions but instead sent an email with a series of transcribed answers that Poilievre gave to journalists between June 2023 and February 2024 on LGBTQ2 issues.
The answers include Poilievre’s call for Canada to continue offering refuge for persecuted LGBTQ2 people around the world, and that “female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males.”
Pollievre is right that Trudeau is not interested in protecting kids. In nearly 10 years he has done absolutely nothing to protect kids from child sexual abuse. Canada may be the only country in the western world that has completely ignored the phenomenal growth in child sex abuse in the past 15 years.
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Poilievre weighs in on Alberta trans policies for kids, says he’s against puberty blockers
Worthman and Celeste Trianon, who runs a centre that helps trans people in Quebec who wish to change their legal name or gender marker (?), say the Liberals should follow the lead of the U.S. Democratic party, which has seen a swell of support since replacing President Joe Biden with Vice-President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee in November’s presidential election.
Randy Boissonnault, a federal cabinet minister who was previously Trudeau’s special adviser on LGBTQ2 issues, says queer people are right to be worried about what may happen if Poilievre wins the upcoming election.
However, Boissonnault says Trudeau is the best person to lead the party through another campaign, adding that the prime minister is a champion of LGBTQ2 rights.
He just appointed a man from Alberta to the Senate. A man who is firmly for the transitioning of gender dysphoric children from an early age. Such a man does not represent the feelings and beliefs of Albertans. This is a slap in the face of Alberta's heroic Premier, Danielle Smith.
Hey, Tim Walz isn’t so bad. In an age when leftists compete with one another in how much they can repudiate and mock traditional values, it is surprising and refreshing to discover that the Democrats’ shiny new vice-presidential candidate, America’s dad, is a regular churchgoer. Walz’s Christian piety, however, is not exactly the sort of thing that would put you in mind of Augustine, Aquinas, Martin Luther, Mother Theresa, or any other prominent Christian you’d care to name. In fact, it’s just the sort of thing you’d expect: the far left at prayer.
The Daily Caller reported Wednesday that Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz attends a church, all right, but you will not be surprised to learn that it’s not exactly a bastion of Christianity as it has been known up until these enlightened days. Walz attends Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minn., where the worship is as woke as it can be. If it weren’t for the folks walking around in robes and the occasional prayers, Walz might sometimes get confused and think that he is at a Democrat party meeting, for Pilgrim Lutheran is little more than the Democrat platform in ecclesiastical trappings.
Pilgrim Lutheran’s stances on everything are tediously predictable, and 100% in line with the latest far-left wisdom. The Caller notes that “materials published by Pilgrim Lutheran Church instruct parishioners not to refer to God using male pronouns, push congregants to support reparation funds, encourage them to celebrate Ramadan and include a modified gender-neutral version of the Lord’s Prayer, among other liberal practices.” Of course. Anything else would be racist, bigoted, sexist, and “Islamophobic.” Pilgrim Lutheran’s leadership would no doubt rather be burned at the stake rather than be accused of any of those beyond-mortal sins.
Walz’s church is, of course, not singular to his corner of the Minnesota Soviet Socialist Republic. Woke churches have spread all over our fair land, and are full of the blue-haired, gender-confused, and heavily tattooed whenever they feel the need to give the appearance that God or Gaia or Almighty Whoever heartily approves of their activities.
Pilgrim Lutheran itself is an outpost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), which ditched traditional Protestant Christianity quite some time ago in order to chase after the left’s latest cultural fads and imbue them with a patina of sanctity. And so it is no surprise once again that the ELCA not only has female bishops but lesbian bishops, as well as female bishops who are really men but have demanded that everyone around them pretend that they’re women.
There is only one country in the Middle East that allows Pride Parades and that is Israel. The rest of the Muslim dominated Middle East does not allow gay or lesbians in any way, shape or form. So, why do LGBTQetc identify with people who would murder them in a heartbeat, against a country where they actually have rights and freedom? Astonishing stupidity!
Yet again, gay activists supporting “Palestine” (which hates them) are out making a spectacle of themselves, this time via Fredericton Pride in New Brunswick, Canada:
“UNB” is the University of New Brunswick, which cowardly rushed to distance itself from Israel in May under questioning about its investments in Israel. Its administration stated that “currently UNB does not have any active partnerships with Israeli institutions” except for “a small fraction of its endowment” in Israel-based companies.
The Queers for Palestine movement is so antisemitic that it’s “forcing LGBTQ+ Jews back into the closet,” according to a Jerusalem Post report. Compounding the issue in Fredericton is taxpayer-funded government support.
Among the sponsors’ logos presented at the upcoming Fredericton Pride event are those of the Government of Canada and the city of Fredericton.
The province of New Brunswick, however, is governed by Premier Blaine Higgs of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick, which issued a statement in January aboutrising antisemitism after an attack on a Fredericton synagogue. Conservative Minister of Justice and Public Safety Kris Austin stated:
There is no place in New Brunswick for antisemitism. I want to express my support to the Jewish community and assure them our department has already engaged with local police to offer support and any needed assistance as they investigate.
Since October 7, we have seen a horrific rise in antisemitic and Holocaust-denying activity both online, and in streets across Canada and around the world.
The Palestinian cause and “resistance” is packaged under the anti-racism banner, and is fuelling the rise in antisemitism. Its organizers know how to harness and manipulate Western wokesters, while concealing the truth about how Palestinians view gays, as well as the fact that the “resistance” is aimed at annihilating Israel from the River to the Sea.
The truth is that gays are despised, scorned, and utterly rejected among Palestinians. They are under threat of violence. It is only in Israel that the gay community can live in peace, including Palestinian gays. 25-year-old Ahmad Hacham Hamdi Abu Marakhia, a gay Palestinian, “was kidnapped and brutally beheaded in Hebron.”His body was then paraded through the streets of a Palestinian neighborhood. The incident happened three months after a prominent sermon by Al-Aqsa Mosque Islamic scholar and cleric Imam Mohammed Saleem Ali, who stated passionately:
The Palestinian people will not allow a single homosexual on our land; such perversion brings the wrath of Allah on us all.
Mohammed Saleem Ali also discussed the “killings of female students in the Arab world, saying that this is a result of the ‘immorality’ of mixing the male and female students in universities.”
Gay-hatred is not the exception among Palestinians. It’s the rule. Crowds attending Friday prayer at al-Aqsa reach tens of thousands. During Ramadan, over 250,000 have attended.
So what do Western gays supporting “Palestine” really think they’re doing? Western gays who support a “free Palestine” from the River to the Sea are being played for fools. Just days ago in Halifax, Canada, two lesbians who were merely celebrating a birthday night out were beaten up by a group of Muslim men.
In Western countries, pro-Hamas gay activists face gentle opposition in response to their antisemitism such as petitions like this one — click HERE. Just imagine what they’d face if they took their anti-Israel activism in a gay pride parade to the Palestinian territories, exhibiting their full flamboyance, rainbow flags and Palestinian flags.
Their rabid and blind support of the Palestinian “resistance” isn’t reciprocated.
It must be quite a joke in Islam. How stupid can those westerners be?
